Violet

The healing properties of Violet
Medicinal action causes saponin, essential oil, alkaloid violin and salicylic acid compounds. Violet tea is prepared from leaves, flowers and roots, for tea cup teaspoon mix. Violet leafs can be used on the outside. The Kneipp informs the following about this: "The wrinkled leaves of the violet, put as a compress, cool and reduce the inflammation of the swelling, and the leaves tendered to the octu, used as a cover for the lining, heal the podagru.
The smell and the taste:
The violet has a pleasant , very familiar and distinctive scent , which is nearly lost lost when the flower is dried.The taste is slimy like grass , slightly sharper while the taste of the roots stimulates bomiting.
The time is flowering March -April and sometimes bloom again in the autumn.